Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Retail Associate: $52K median posted pay.
From 230 salary bands employers posted on 399 open retail associate roles in retail. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 399 | $52K | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Aritzia | 132 | — |
| Csc | 79 | — |
| Bestbuycanada | 71 | — |
| Fanatics Commerce | 51 | — |
| Red Wing Shoe Company | 33 | — |
| The Black Tux | 11 | — |
| Alphabe Insight Inc | 5 | — |
| Mattel | 3 | — |
| The Trustees of Reservations | 2 | — |
| Fuku | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open retail associate roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Customer Service | 258 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 142 | — |
| Live Sound | 131 | — |
| Cash Handling | 86 | — |
| Visual Merchandising | 85 | — |
| Retail Sales | 76 | — |
| Stock Replenishment | 75 | — |
| Investigation | 33 | — |
| Housekeeping | 33 | — |
| Waxing and Hair Removal | 33 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site82%328 roles
- Not stated18%71 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 399 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 230 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Retail Associate (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in retail, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.